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Great HAT Resource

by Gloria McConnell

If you are in the market for a new Help authoring tool (HAT), check out http://hat-matrix.com. This site presents significant information, categorized very thoroughly tag, about the following tools:

• Author-it (Author-it Software Corp.)
• Doc-To-Help Enterprise (ComponentOne)
• Dr. Explain (Indigo Byte Systems)
• FAR (helpware.net)
• Flare (MadCap Software)
• Help & Manual (EC Software)
• HelpConsole 2008 (ExtremeEase)
• HelpServer (4ST)
• HelpStudio (Innovasys)
• Mif2Go (Omni Systems)
• RoboHelp (Adobe)

Tools are added based on vendor request, so if you do not see a  product of interest, you are encouraged to contact the company and tell them about hat-matrix.com.

hat-matrix.com includes over twenty categories for comparison, such as  a product’s analytical or table editing capabilities. You can search for tools by feature or compare up to four tools by category. For example, if you are interested in image features, you can select any number of the following features and find products that have the selected features (or compare up to four products at one time):

• Add with drag-and-drop
• Imagemap/SHED editor (built-in) 
• Insert Flash Movie in Word
• Movie-making application: built-in
• Movie-making application: separate but integrated
• Output controlled by settings
• Resize within editor
• Resize with style
• Resize with template
• Screen capture application: built-in
• Screen capture application: separated but integrated
• Support vector graphics

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